After the fleet's first night at sea on this final leg Barclays Adventurer have moved up the fleet and into first place this morning. They are currently averaging a healthy ten knots over the last six hours as they head north west towards Ushant, Spain.

'A wonderful race is still waiting for us on this lovely morning of Bastille Day,' wrote Barclays Adventurer crew member Laurent PELLERIN this morning. 'At the moment we can see seven boats and are kiting at ten knots toward the Raz de Sein, where I started sailing 15 years ago.'

However, the top ten yachts are still within two miles of each other and all teams will no doubt be pushing as hard as they can to seek advantage over their competitors during this short but intense leg.

James ALLEN (GBR) and his team on Me To You are lying a few miles further back in eleventh place after getting caught up in a windless patch yesterday. Nevertheless the mood on board is upbeat as crew-member Mark DOLTON describes, 'As usual the crew on Me To You are fighting hard eager to make up the lost ground. We've had a reasonable night making small gains on the fleet, but we are under no illusions - it's going to be hard.'

'So far the conditions are consistent and we are all doing in the region of ten knots. The night was similar to driving on the M25, not only the Challenge fleet but a whole host of fishing boats and shipping to wind our way through.'

Meanwhile, BP Explorer are now 36 miles behind the fleet leader in twelfth place, having had to turn back to round an obligatory waypoint which they missed yesterday.

It is no doubt a cruel blow for David MELVILLE (GGBR) and his team to see the rest of the fleet so far ahead in such a short leg. However, despite feel intensely disappointed with their situation, skipper MELVILLE said that the team were determined, 'not to let this one silly mistake define our campaign.'

With light winds forecast and possible calm patches ahead, BP Explorer will be looking for opportunities to make gains if those ahead park up.

'Such things have occurred before during the race and may occur during this leg,' reports MELVILLE. 'There is nothing we can do but hope for this and race the boat as hard as we can in anticipation.'

Tom Burton (AUS) and Alison Young (GBR) hit the right note in the Laser and Laser Radial at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne as they took out the top honours and qualification spots to the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup Final.

It was double Australian gold in the Paralympic classes. Matt Bugg (AUS) came out on top in the 2.4mR whilst London 2012 Paralympic SKUD18 gold medallists Dan Fitzgibbon and Liesl Tesch (AUS) were triumphant in the two person keelboat.

Lithuania's Juozas Bernotas came out on top in the Men's RS:X whilst Russia's Stefania Elfutina was triumphant in the Women's RS:X. Both sailors claim the first Abu Dhabi ISAF Sailing World Cup Final spots whilst Jock Calvert (AUS) and Joanna Sterling (AUS) picked up the Oceanic spots for the Emirati finale.

There was some fast paced action in the 49er and 49erFX Medal Races at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne as Nathan Outteridge & Iain Jensen (AUS) and Maia & Ragna Agerup (NOR) claimed the honours and Abu Dhabi final spots.

A tight group of five young Papua New Guinean (PNG) Laser sailors are stepping up their 2015 Pacific Games competition program using this week's ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne. PNG is one of 33 countries represented at the important Oceanic event, the largest Olympic sailing regatta in the southern hemisphere.

Melbourne, Australia will host the final Rio 2016 Paralympic Games qualification regatta in 2015. With just under one year until the event, the 2015 IFDS Worlds was launched at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne.

ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne kick starts the journey to the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup Final in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates with qualification spots and top ranking points available in the Australian city.

Four boats in the Volvo Ocean Race celebrated rounding the venerated landmark of Cape Horn on Monday, a pleasure cruelly denied Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA) after the Chinese boat's mast was broken early in a dramatic day on Leg 5.

The wind played dirty tricks all day in Palma on the sailors and race committees who had to juggle with big shifts and different pressure. From 4 to 20 knots, and reaching 40 in some gusts, the wind turned around the bay playing with everybody's nerves.

Ghosting across the line in the inky blackness of a Mediterranean spring night, finally slicing through the finish line set on the very waters where some 40 odd years ago he cut his teeth as a young, aspiring sailor harbouring great dreams, at 01:47:00hrs local time Guillermo Altadill and his talented, ever reliable Chilean co-skipper Jose Muñoz secured second placed in this third edition of the Barcelona World Race, the round the world race for two crew which left the Catalan capital on December 31st 2014.

Algoa Bay brought lighter conditions on Sunday, and after a postponement waiting for the wind to settle, the race got underway in 7 knots of breeze from the south-east. Ted Conrads and Brian Haines from the USA were the pathfinders, and opened up the gate for the fleet as they sailed out to the right-hand side of the course.